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...answer is probably yes on both counts. Giamatti has a highly refined passion for paradox, a humanist sensibility that is both invoked and evoked repeatedly in every essay, and on nearly every page of this elegantly written book. Winning and bit-time athletics have apparently gone hand-in-hand, but Giamatti is capable of drawing a sharp distinction between the two, and pointing out a hidden incompatibility. Yet perhaps the primary weakness--as well as the primary strength--of this collection is the difficulty the reader shares with Giamatti of reconciling the conflicting notions he posits...
...Calvinist or Marxist could conceive, it is proper faith of a century in which men seem to get better at doing just about everything while events get more and more absurdly out of control. Revealed through the agency of a Viennese Jew who alternately wore the hats of humanist, scientist, prophet and pariah, psychoanalysis is a creed without a salvation. There are no elect, and the priesthood does not claim to be holier than the laity. Adhered to by few, it is understood by fewer still. Ultimately, it probably satisfies...
...impression that the author's real concern is not that Cara, Gregory and Jim have boring jobs, but that he should be forced to sully himself with their company. I recall one of my professors at this university who, although known as a great liberal and humanist, once blasted the entire population of South Boston as idiots and cretins because of the way in which they speak. Such "fair-weather liberalism" is not only offensive in its superficiality, but dangerous in its implicit assumption that persons without college educations are inferior and little more than a necessary nuisance to people...
...Jefferson Lecture is described by its sponsor, the National Endowment for the Humanities, as the "highest honor that the United States pays to an eminent humanist." Holton, the first scientist to be so honored, gave the hour-long lecture Monday in Washington, D.C. and repeated it Wednesday before an invited audience of about 250 at the Boston Public Library...
...nostalgia," he says, stroking his neat, silver goatee, "but I've made a hell of a living from it." Indeed, one of the nine books he wrote or collaborated on is titled The Good Old Days-They Were Terrible. Bettmann is one of those rare creatures, an optimistic humanist. His belief that the world is not going directly to ruin has led to one of the main reasons for the archive's success: historical pictures add a depth of understanding to current events. Explains Bettmann: "Why show students protesting at Berkeley? Everyone's seen that...